About the Artist:

Katrina Niswander is an internationally exhibiting and collected fine artist, interior designer, and life coach working out of Toledo Ohio. She explores the complexities of time, memory, nostalgia, and loss, collaborating with found photo reproductions. Her paint bends time and creates additional moments and expressions for the figures in the photo. She expands on that artist calling through her design and coaching work. Her approach emphasizes the transformative power of art, design, and mindful living practices as forms of self-care, encouraging individuals to embrace these tools to cultivate a more aesthetically pleasing, imaginative, and fulfilling existence.

Artist Statement:

I have a fascination with what we choose to surround ourselves with, to share and ultimately leave behind. My artwork begins with my collection of found photographs. As I paint I contemplate the lives of the subjects and weave them a new story. It's meditative and collaborative - integrating what they have chosen to share about themselves in the photo with what I can add with my paintbrush. It bends time, it celebrates these ghosts and adds another layer to their existence. We take photos as a way to capture a memory - but even photos fade and crumble, even the digital can become corrupted or lost. I transform fuzzy black and white snippets of time through an intuitive practice of adding graphic color in an attempt to wrap my head around the complexities of time, memory, nostalgia, and loss in a playful way. My mixed media paintings are a collaboration between past and present that manufactures new memories for us to share.

Contact:

Katrina Niswander Art & Design // Toledo Ohio // hello@katrinaniswander.com